Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈmaɪz/
demise (plural demises)
- (legal) The conveyance or transfer of an estate, either in fee for life or for years, most commonly the latter.
- Transmission by formal act or conveyance to an heir or successor; transference; especially, the transfer or transmission of the crown or royal authority to a successor.
- Death.
- The end of something, in a negative sense; downfall.
- The lack of funding ultimately led to the project's demise.
- French: transfert
- Spanish: transferencia
- French: transfert, transmission
- Russian: переда́ча по наследство
- French: chute, fin, échec, disparition
- German: Untergang, Verschwinden
- Spanish: desaparición, caída
demise (demises, present participle demising; past and past participle demised)
- (transitive, obsolete, legal) To give.
- (transitive, legal) To convey, as by will or lease.
- (transitive, legal) To transmit by inheritance.
- (intransitive, legal) To pass by inheritance.
- (intransitive) To die.
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